In the Ghetto: Songs of Elvis
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Artist: Various Artists
Label: Castle Music UK
Category: Music
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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 5050159140220
ASIN: B00005UBI3
Release Date: 2002-02-05 |
In the Ghetto: Songs of Elvis
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Tracks:
- Hound Dog
- Heartbreak Hotel
- Prends Mon Coeur' (A Fool Such as I) - Petula Clark
- Paralysed - Emile Ford and the Checkmates
- Crawfish - Thursday's Children
- Lawdy Miss Clawdy [Live] - Jackie Lynton
- See See Rider [Live] - David Garrick
- Girls, Girls, Girls [Live]
- What'd I Say - Jimmy Justice
- Such a Night - The Cadets
- Blue Suede Shoes
- Suspicion - Dickie Rock
- Don't
- Baby I Don't Care - Brendan O'Brien
- Hurt - Joe Quigley,
- I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine - John Leyton
- There's Always Me - Dickie Rock
- Young and Beautiful
- Big Hunk of Love
- Trouble - Emile Ford and the Checkmates
- Blue Moon
- Old Shep - Clinton Ford
- Paralysed - Terry Dene
- Baby Let's Playhouse
- Rip It Up - Wild Angels
- All Shook Up - Wild Angels
- (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear - Wild Angels
- Jailhouse Rock/Hound Dog - Wild Angels
Tracks:
- Suspicious Minds - Candi Staton
- My Way - Chairmen of the Board
- On Night of Sin (One Night with You) - Jackie Brown
- Wooden Heart - John Holt
- Suspicion - Jimmy London
- Wonder of You - Lloyd Parks
- In the Ghetto - Lena Martell
- I Just Can't Help Believing
- I Can't Help Falling in Love - Joe Dolan
- Crying in the Chapel - Julie Rogers
- American Trilogy [Live] - Lena Martell
- Loving Arms - Frankie Vaughan
- Last Farewell - Max Bygraves
- There Goes My Everything
- Until It's Time for You to Go - Vera Lynn
- Twelfth of Never - Don Neilson
- Rags to Riches - Reggie Goff
- I Really Don't Want to Know - The Alexander Brothers
- Love Me Tender - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen
- Wooden Heart - Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen
- Softly As I Leave You - Dennis Lotis
- Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
- Old Shep - Mike Reid
- Hound Dog [Live] - Dickie Valentine
Album Description
UK compilation for those who enjoy tongue-in-cheek kitsch & for the ardent collector alike. Featuring 52 tracks including rarities, remastered from the original tapes. The eclectic mix of acts includes Emile Ford 'Paralysed', Lena Martell 'In The Ghetto' & Chairmen Of The Board 'My Way'. Additional artists include Petula Clark, Mungo Jerry, Candi Staton & many more. 2002.
Customer Reviews:
A very eclectic Elvis tribute.......2005-01-13
I've bought a few compilations of tributes compiled from the Pye archives but this is one of the strangest, perhaps because the compilers did not always take the task seriously (the liner notes prove that), but there is too much good music here to get upset about the jokers. Anyway, everybody's tastes are different so maybe you'll enjoy the tracks that I could have done without.
The compilers regarded any song recorded by Elvis as eligible, so there are a few songs that aren't really Elvis songs, one example being The last farewell. Despite spreading their net so widely, they still included two versions of some songs - indeed, Hound dog appears in three versions, one of them being in a medley with Jailhouse rock. I suspect that there are enough recordings in the Pye vaults to have avoided this situation.
Female singers are represented here by Frances Gilvray (a bluesy version of Hound dog), Gale Warning (a strange version of Heartbreak Hotel), Petula Clark (Prends mon coeur - a French version of Fool such as I), Candi Staton (Suspicious minds), Lena Martell (In the ghetto), Julie Rogers (Crying in the chapel), Vera Lynn (Until it's time for you to go) and one half of Miki and Griff (There goes my everything). If you are thinking that this is an eclectic mix of singers for a collection of Elvis songs, look at the list of male artists here.
The male artists are a very diverse bunch including the Alexander brothers (a Scottish folk-country duo), Max Bygraves (easy listening), John Holt (reggae), Kenny Ball (jazz) Chairmen of the board (soul), Joe Dolan, Emile Ford, Mungo Jerry (who does a really strange version of Baby let's play house), Joe Brown, John Leyton, Frankie Vaughan, Mike Reid and Dickie Valentine are among them. There are four tracks here by the Wild Angels but I would not have been so generous. Of the tracks presented here, I like All shook up best.
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